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Would Law Enforcement Leaders Support Defunding the Police?

Aug 20, 2020

Police have expressed frustration with being expected to handle complex social problems such as homelessness and substance use. Budgeting less money for police and more for other public safety strategies might appeal to law enforcement if these efforts relieve some of the unrealistic expectations on them.
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Stress Accumulates in Marginalized Communities, Generation After Generation

Jul 8, 2020

Psychologists and biologists have known for years that prolonged stress is toxic to the human body. A better understanding of how stress builds in communities—and the burden it puts on them—can lead to more effective policies to address it.

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Journal Article

Advancing Community Resilience Research and Practice: Moving from "Me" to "We" to "3d"

In this article, we provide a rationale for moving research and practice towards an adaptive systems framework, drawing on the cascading challenges that Gulf of Mexico coastal communities have endured since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill disaster.

Sep 16, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Hybrid Governance of Disaster Management in Freetown, Monrovia, and Dar Es Salaam

This article introduces a hybrid governance perspective to disaster management. Hybrid governance refers to situations where state and non-state actors collectively provide key services.

Sep 16, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

A Scoping Review of Strategies for Financing the Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Behavioral Health Systems: State of the Literature and Future Directions

We conducted a scoping review that assessed the current state of evidence on EBP financing strategies for behavioral health. We defined financing strategies as techniques that secure and direct financial resources to support evidence-based practice implementation.

Sep 15, 2020
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Journal Article

Promises and Pitfalls of Health Information Technology for Home and Community-Based Services

Structural reforms required by the Medicaid Balancing Incentive Program gave states an opportunity to modernize their HCBS systems through health information technology. Barriers to technology adoption persist, underscoring the need for continued support in future rebalancing efforts.

Sep 15, 2020
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Journal Article

A Complexity Approach for Reducing Disaster Risks for Marginalized Urban Populations: Comparing DRR Interventions Across Four Cities

This chapter conceptualizes cities and their risks as a complex adaptive system and examines the methods for risk reduction.

Sep 3, 2020
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Journal Article

Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities: Towards a New Normal

This chapter introduces some of the key issues facing scholars and practitioners of disaster risk reduction in urban areas, which are now home to over half of the global population.

Sep 3, 2020
Essay

What Telemedicine Needs to Succeed Beyond COVID-19

Virtual doctor visits have become part of the new normal. Since the first COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, Medicare and other payers have relaxed their rules to make it easier for patients to connect to care. But without permanent policy changes, physicians may not continue telemedicine services.

Sep 2, 2020
Tool

Getting To Outcomes® Operations Guide for U.S. Air Force Community Action Teams: Content Area Module for Air Force Sleep Health Promotion

This content area module for Air Force sleep health promotion is a companion volume to the Getting To Outcomes Operations Guide for U.S. Air Force Community Action Teams.

Aug 20, 2020
Report

Transforming social care provision: first steps towards sustained innovation

The main focus of this Perspective is on ideas to stimulate and sustain innovation in social care; and ideas for research to bring closer a system of sustainable social care innovation.

Aug 12, 2020
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Journal Article

A Pilot Test of Game Changers, a Social Network Intervention to Empower People with HIV to Be Prevention Advocates in Uganda

We developed and conducted a pilot test of Game Changers, a 6-session group-based intervention that aims to empower people with HIV to be agents for HIV prevention by initiating conversations about HIV with social network members.

Aug 7, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Amplifying Stewardship: Characteristics and Trends Stewards Consider When Expanding Equitable Well-Being

This report profiles characteristics of people who are not only impressive stewards, but also are helping to grow the entire field of system stewardship for well-being.

Aug 4, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Engaging Community Networks to Improve Depression Services: A Cluster-Randomized Trial of a Community Engagement and Planning Intervention

The study results help to identify plausible mechanisms of action for the Community Partners in Care interventions for depression and can be used to guide development of future community health engagement interventions and evaluations in under-resourced communities.

Aug 4, 2020
News Release

Telemedicine Can Help Safety-Net Providers Expand Specialized Medical Services

Safety-net medical providers can substantially increase their telemedicine services with modest investments in new staff and technology, a move that can help them expand patients' access to specialized medical care.

Jul 29, 2020
Report

Report

Conceptualising and measuring quality of life to inform local policy and decisionmaking: A literature review

This literature review identifies quality of life (QoL) measures that may be used by local decision makers. The study found that QoL is a multidimensional concept and many measures were identified, but there was little evidence that they are used.

Jul 29, 2020
Report

Costs of Maintaining a High-Volume Telemedicine Program in Community Health Centers

RAND researchers describe telemedicine-related costs incurred by health centers participating in the Sustainable Models of Telehealth in the Safety Net initiative.

Jul 29, 2020
Report

Experiences of Community Health Centers in Expanding Telemedicine

Researchers evaluated the experiences of health centers that participated in the Sustainable Models of Telehealth in the Safety Net initiative, which aimed to support the growth of telemedicine.

Jul 29, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Factors Related to Health Civic Engagement: Results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes to Understand Progress Towards a Culture of Health

Health civic engagement may help improve conditions that influence health and well-being for all. Focusing on individuals' sense of community and highlighting investments in community health may be associated with increased health civic engagement and improved community and population health.

Jul 24, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Practitioner Approaches to Measuring Community Resilience: The Analysis of the Resilience of Communities to Disasters Toolkit

In this article, we present the Analysis of the Resilience of Communities to Disasters (ARC-D) toolkit, a practical toolkit developed by an international aid organization, GOAL, over the course of a decade of practice.

Jul 17, 2020
Periodical

Periodical

RAND Review: July-August 2020

Feature stories explore what research says about learning loss after extended school breaks; how stress and trauma affect individual and community health; and how a critical care surge response tool is helping hospitals during the pandemic.

Jul 13, 2020

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Communities

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Organized Society

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